Despite the toylike feel of his figures, he is too knowing to be a primitive, and for all his seemingly topical references mocking scenes, for example, of military juntas he is too dreamy to be a chronicler and too gentle for a parodist.
Once an abstract painter, Mr. Richter reinvigorated his career two years ago with figurative compositions of topical and sinister scenes rendered in a style at once fierce and as dappled as a John Marin pastoral.
Those of you who've lived on the Internet for any significant portion of time may recognize precisely the sort of "Hitler parody video" at the center of this contretemps: the "Downfall" parody, in which enterprising memesters swap in topical subtitles over a scene from Oliver Hirschbiegel's "Der Untergang".
The drooling wolves of the press lope through the murk and every so often, as a pack, raise their muzzles to the moon and howl.Such a scene, now richly topical, has been playing in America for most of this year.
The 1943 scene melds a topical inventory of wartime images with Surrealism's fascination for children's art, uncorrupted and without adult prejudice, which the deft composition embraces.
Though only fragments exist, it is clear that the usual mime plot, while free to indulge in biting topical allusion, centred principally on scenes of adultery and other vice.
They are organized in topical sections on detection, recognition and retrieval; scene understanding; optimization; image and video processing; learning; action, activity and tracking; 3D; and 9 poster sessions.
The question is topical because last night the BBC broadcast two scenes of blacking up at the same time on different channels.
There may be local and topical distractions, but by and large Updike's scenes and characters express a propitious America, mottled only by metaphysical ruminations.
